Creating documents

✍️ Creating Documents

"From policies to patents, everything starts as a document."
Brainframe gives you 100+ industry-specific types to build a living knowledge base.

At Brainframe, everything is treated as a document.

This simple yet powerful approach means you can manage policies, risks, assets, or even supplier contacts — all with the same consistent features.

Unlike traditional tools limited to Word, Excel, or PDFs, Brainframe offers 100+ preconfigured document types covering security, privacy, compliance, and operations.

Most document types include:

📋 Unique properties
🗂 Predefined templates
🆔 Unique identifiers
✅ Best-practice configurations

This broad vocabulary helps you describe your environment clearly while keeping your workspace structured and audit-ready.

1️⃣ How to Create a Document

Document creation

Click the New button.
Select the appropriate document type from the dropdown.
Start working with its template and properties.

📌 Tip: Choose the document type that most closely matches your process — this keeps reports, risks, and assets easy to categorize later.

2️⃣ Document Categories & Examples

Brainframe groups its document types into categories, helping you find the right one faster.

🔧 Operational

Action to take
Audit report
Core Business Service
Corrective or preventive action (CAPA)

🛡 Security

Business Continuity Plan (BCP)
CIA Risk (Confidentiality, Integrity, Availability)
ISMS Management Review Meeting
Policy / Procedure

🔐 Privacy

Controller(s) of the data
Data processing activity
Data processing agreement (DPA)
Privacy objective KPI

💻 Digital Assets

Backend system
Cloud infrastructure
Cloud SaaS product/service
Database

🖥 Software & Web

Mobile app
Software
Software firewall
Source code repository

🏢 Physical Assets

Building, office, or room
IoT device
IT room / Datacenter / Cloud provider
Physical asset

⚖ Legal

Intellectual property
Legal risk
Non-disclosure agreement (NDA)
Patent, contract, certificate, proof of ownership

👥 People & Organizations

Authority contact
Business risk
Consultant
Contact person

3️⃣ Best Practices

📄 Pick the right document type – It improves search, reporting, and dependency mapping.
🔄 Leverage templates – Start with prefilled structures to save time.
👥 Assign ownership – Add responsible people or roles via properties.
🛡 Map dependencies early – Connect assets, risks, and policies as you create them.

🎯 Visual Checklist

[x] Clicked New to create a document
[x] Selected the correct document type
[x] Used category filters (Operational, Security, Privacy, etc.)
[ ] Added unique properties for ownership & classification
[ ] Linked dependencies where relevant

Updated on: 11/09/2025

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